{"product_id":"racial-blackness-and-the-discontinuity-of-western-modernity-hardback-9780252038006","title":"Racial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity (Hardback) 9780252038006","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRacial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLindon Barrett (Author), Justin A. Joyce (Edited by), Dwight A. McBride (Edited by), John Carlos Rowe (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780252038006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 23 December 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e264 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.513 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"Lindon Barrett was one of our most brilliant intellectuals. His loss was, and remains, incalculable, but what he has left us in the form of \u003cu\u003eRacial Blackness and the Discontinuity of Western Modernity\u003c\/u\u003e is just as incalculable a gift and legacy. A truly magisterial work.\"\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e--Fred Moten, author of \u003cu\u003eIn the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition\u003c\/u\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"In addition to deepening our understanding of the genealogy of western racism, this volume promises to effect a revaluation of established representations of African American modernism. A vivid demonstration of the affecting form of thoughtful, indeed crucial, provocation that Barrett added to the world.\"--Donald E. Pease, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eRe-Framing the Transnational Turn in American Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cdiv\u003eThe unfinished manuscript of literary and cultural theorist Lindon Barrett, this study offers a genealogy of how the development of racial blackness within the mercantile capitalist system of Euro-American colonial imperialism was constitutive of Western modernity. Masterfully connecting historical systems of racial slavery to post-Enlightenment modernity, this pathbreaking publication shows how Western modernity depended on a particular conception of racism contested by African American writers and intellectuals from the eighteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance.\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eCover\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eTitle\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eContents\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eIntroduction by John Carlos Rowe\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e1. The Conceptual Impossibility of Racial Blackness: History, the Commodity, and Diasporic Modernity\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e2. Making the Flesh Word: Binomial Being and Representational Presence\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e3. Captivity, Desire, Trade: The Forging of National Form\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e4. The Intimate Civic: The Disturbance of the Quotidian\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003e5. Modernism and the Affects of Racial Blackness\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eEpilogue by Justin A. Joyce and Dwight A. McBride\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eNotes\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eBibliography\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ch-level-1\"\u003eIndex\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52520661942552,"sku":"9780252038006","price":86.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/racial-blackness-and-the-discontinuity-of-western-modernity-hardback-9780252038006","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}